Amber Hagerman

One little nine year old girl, gone now for more than twenty years, her murderer still unknown and unfound, has been remembered better than most. Her name was Amber Rene Hagerman. Her memory stays uppermost in the minds of Americans, because her abduction and murder generated a revolution in the mode of police and media response to child abductions for the future. Amber was snatched from her bicycle while riding around and up and down a ramp located in the vicinity of the abandoned Winn-Dixie store on East Abram Street in Arlington, a suburb of Dallas Texas on January 13, 1996. Located nearby at 2525 East Abram Street, Arlington, is a huge General Motors Plant which at the time employed a large number of workers. The area is home to a large Hispanic population, some of whom were illegal immigrants in 1996. Quite a few of these illegal immigrants were in the Laundromat near to the site of the kidnapping, but none of these people have ever come forward as witnesses, though offered immunity if they do so.